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Composed by William Grosvenor Neil. 20th Century,Classical. Score. 41 pages. TheComposerStudio.Com, LLC #909259. Published by TheComposerStudio.Com, LLC (A0.1320814).Movement I. Light by the Beauty of Music
This movement opens with a driving energy that does not diminish until the final passages. The opening theme continues to cycle over accenting sonorities in counterpoint with a 2nd theme that spins forth in perpetual motion. From here emerges a pair of folk themes in tandem. I quote the Romanian folk song: "On the Freedom Plains" along with a counter theme that I composed in a minor mode. I want to thank my Moldovian friend, Natalia Rojcovscaia-Tumaha for inspiring the inclusion of this quote in this movement. This basic cry for freedom among people that have identified with a country where generations have lived and died was the sentiment that I wanted to capture in this music. The movement ends with an unresolved flourish that slowly dies away suggesting the mysterious uncertain nature of music.
Movement II. Deliquesce
The second movement is a simple song-like narrative that speaks in short rhythmic open phrases. The music progression in variation form. All the while, a spinning thread of notes orbits this narrative, eventually cascading into a perpetual motif that ends suspended in space.
Movement III. Light Upon Water
The third movement continues the perpetual motion of the second movement and transforms into a running tapestry of harmonic statements that build to a euphoric choral declaration. After a reflective, improvisatory middle section, the cascading perpetual motion of the opening returns. The conclusion of the movement is signaled by what I call a crossing cadence: the theme in full chordal orchestration is accelerando in the right hand and is retrograde, ritardando in the left hand. Finally, a short coda finishes the sonata.
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